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Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions?

Posted by Cliff on from the dealing-with-an-illness-in-the-family dept.

Jagercola asks: "My sister was recently diagnosed with Schizophrenia. It's a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease that we don't know a lot about. The movie, A Beautiful Mind, paints an accurate picture of how the disease affects someone in a best case scenario. I would like the vast audience here to help me understand the disease through experiences and that it might help me aid my sister. If you know someone how has the disease, how has it affected your and their life? How have you been able to cope with it? What are the long term implications for quality of life?"

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  1. What would be really ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    is if Slashdot posts this again tomorrow. :P

  2. Do you post linux questions on WebMD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    no, you don't.

    1. Re:Do you post linux questions on WebMD? by blair1q · · Score: 4, Funny

      I send them linux questions.

      They don't post them.

  3. Re:I understand... but WHY on slashdot? by One+Louder · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because, in addition to being legal experts and marketing geniuses, we're all also highly qualified psychologists and medical doctors.

  4. Re:I understand... but WHY on slashdot? by sunking2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because the people who keep chasing him threatened his life if he didn't get something posted on Slashdot.

  5. Scary by Raul654 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux on the pacemaker - gives "kill -9" a whole new context

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    To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
    --E.C. Stanton
  6. Re:I understand... but WHY on slashdot? by cloudmaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not a marketing genius.

  7. Re:I understand... but WHY on slashdot? by hesiod · · Score: 4, Funny

    > I'm not a marketing genius.

    The classic ploy of undermarketing yourself to make people curious. You ARE a marketing genius!!!

  8. Re:commonly seen by cayenne8 · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Schizophrenia usually pops up in the late teens/early twenties in most men (and women get it a few years later than that, but usually before age 40)..."

    Hmm....that explains most of the women I've been seeing lately....

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    Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
  9. MAY YOUR PSYCHOTROPIC MEDS BURN IN HELL by polished+look+2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The advice to "take your meds, take your meds," is utter and complete garbage. The only time I began to become better was when I stopped believing in meds and thrust my salvation and deliverance into the hands of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

    1. Re:MAY YOUR PSYCHOTROPIC MEDS BURN IN HELL by ThisIsFred · · Score: 3, Funny

      The only time I began to become better was when I stopped believing in meds and thrust my salvation and deliverance into the hands of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

      I just checked, my HMO doesn't cover prescriptions for that, even as a co-pay.

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      Fred

      "A fool and his freedom are soon parted"
      -RMS